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Read Part 1 >> Chance Encounter in Tokyo At age 16, I traveled to Japan with a group of Hawai‘i boys to train at the …
In my childhood home in Roseville, California, we had a room we called “the den.” It was not the formal living room, where we had …
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My grandfather, Wakaji Matsumoto, traveled across the Pacific Ocean to help his father in a foreign land, but he returned to his native Japan as …
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For whatever “academic inadequacies” the fledgling ethnic studies was accused of back in the early 1970s, what did the institutional establishments of higher education expect …
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Mitch Homma, a 3rd generation Japanese American, grew up and still lives in Southern California. He has long been interested in Japanese and Japanese American …
This article is a follow-up to the writer’s original “Living in South Los Angeles — Today as a Japanese American” story. This story further explores …
I’ve been thinking about what we save. I’ve been looking through one of my oldest auntie’s scrapbooks. Because I know that it will also fall …
At first, her voice is scratchy as her phone connects to mine across thousands of miles of sea, me sitting in a dorm room at …
“I will never forget seeing my great-grandfather’s photograph in his immigration case file,” Marisa Louie Lee recalls. “The moment I opened the folder and saw …
This is what Regina Boone knows about her grandfather: His name was Tsujiro Miyazaki. He came to this country, family legend has it, as a …
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